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Left: The New

Streamline Sparklet

based on Ward's

patents is marked

on the bottom "A

product of

Sparklets

Corporation, New

York, Patent No.

101,421."

Right: A

mechanical pencil

advertising

"Original World

Famous Sparklet

Syphon."

By the 1940s Lawrence Ward's patents were in the name of Knapp-Monarch Company,

St. Louis. He continued his works on bulb holders (referring to the bulbs as "Sparklet

bulbs) and siphon construction.